A Musical of Titantic Proportions

Tara and I have been close friends since the 7th grade, and her mom has been choreographing the musicals at Baldwinsville High School (our rival high school) since we were Freshman in high school.  It's a yearly ritual to go watch the musical with Tara.  In the 16 years her mom's been doing this, the only productions I've missed have been when I was away at college in Utah or out of the country on a mission in Spain.  This year I saw a musical I hadn't ever seen before- Titantic.  If you're thinking of the movie think again, because it's nothing like it.  The musical actually tries to stick to real characters- there is no love story of Jack and what's her-buck.

I haven't completely decided how much I like the musical itself, because it is quite a downer and a pretty well-known storyline.  I'm not always a fan of walking in and knowing what's going to happen before I've even seen it.  The music itself is not exactly going to be upbeat tune-catchers that you want to sing all day.  In fact, the word eerie comes to mind when trying to describe it.  

The one thing that really impressed me was the sheer number of singing roles (mostly males).  The show is almost entirely singing, and I can't believe they had enough talent at a high school to fill all of the roles and still have a good sounding ensemble.  My hat goes off to those kids.  I know my high school would never have been able to pull off this production.  We most definitely did not have enough guys.

While I'm not sure I would want to see this musical over and over again, I thought it was well done and a good night's entertainment.